Tarrah Krajnak

Tarrah Krajnak (born 1979) is an American artist who works with photography, performance, and poetry. In 2020 she received the Lange-Taylor Prize. Krajnak's work is held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pinault Collection, Paris and Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Life and work
Krajnak was born in an orphanage in Lima, Peru in 1979 and adopted by Slovak Americans as a baby.

, she lives in Eugene, Oregon where she works an assistant professor of art at the University of Oregon.

Publications

 * 1979: Contact Negatives. Zine. Edition of 75 copies.
 * El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan = The Garden of Forking Paths. DAIS, 2021. With text by Krajnak and Kavior Moon. ISBN 978-1-7339499-3-4. Edition of 175 copies.
 * Master Rituals II: Weston's Nudes. TBW, 2022. ISBN 978-1-942953-58-6. Edition of 500 copies.

Group exhibitions

 * Image/Counterimage: Tarrah Krajnak, Valie Export, Sanja Iveković, Ana Mendieta, Carrie Mae Weems, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, April–August 2023
 * Regards de Femmes = Women's Perspectives, Fondation A Stichting, Belgium, September–December 2022
 * Energy: Sparks from the Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, May 2023 – January 2024 includes Krajnak's 1979: Contact Negatives
 * Body to Body, Histories of Photography, Centre Pompidou, Paris, September 2023 – March 2024

Awards

 * 2020: Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

Collections
Krajnak's work is held in the following permanent collections:
 * Centre Pompidou, Paris
 * Museum of Modern Art, New York
 * Pinault Collection, Paris
 * Victoria and Albert Museum, London